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Brian Margolies, Partner, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has held on several occasions that the pollution exclusion applies to Chinese drywall claims. See, e.g....
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NEW
ORLEANS - (Mealey's) The Plaintiffs'
Steering Committee (PSC) in the Chinese Drywall multidistrict litigation and
defendant Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin (KPT) today announced a settlement to
remediate up to 300 homes in Alabama, Mississippi...
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By Ellen Clarke and Sallie Kraus
The pace of litigation in the Chinese drywall ("CDW") claims has escalated in recent months. It is alleged that the gypsum that was used to manufacture that drywall came from particular Chinese mines and...
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By Randy Maniloff, Partner, White and Williams LL
Karen Carpenter, on life as an insurer in Pennsylvania handling construction defect claims:
Everything I want the world to be
Is now comin’ true especially for me
And the reason is...
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NEW ORLEANS - (Mealey's) The judge overseeing the federal Chinese drywall multidistrict litigation awarded seven Virginia families more than $2.6 million in damages April 8 against a manufacturer that has already been held in default; the judge made...
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